The game may be gone, but Boston continues to take the L.
The Red Sox have given up “Fortnite” amid their early-season struggles. By Mike Hume Mike Hume Assignment editor for NFL and NHL coverage. Oversees the Fancy Stats blog as well as esports and gaming coverage. Email Bio Follow May 2 at 10:37 AM Major League Baseball’s reigning champs are off to a rough start this season, but there will be no llama drama for the Boston Red Sox.
Multiple players told WEEI’s Rob Bradford that the team has removed the video game “Fortnite” from the clubhouse, believing it was “becoming counterproductive to putting their best foot forward on the field.” The Red Sox have struggled mightily to start the season, currently sitting at 14-17 and 5½ games back of the first-place Tampa Bay Rays in the American League East.
“I think there is a time and place for that, too,” Nathan Eovaldi told Bradford. “Maybe if we were doing a little better maybe we would be doing it, but you can’t be losing and playing Fortnite in the clubhouse.”The Red Sox’ players have long embraced the game that’s been embraced by more than 250 million people world wide.
Given its pop-culture prevalence, this is far from the first time “Fortnite” has found itself in the sporting world’s crosshairs for absorbing so much time from athletes. In March, Philadelphia’s Carlos Santana smashed a TV when he found his teammates playing while the Phillies were in the middle of a game. Toronto Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo announced around the same time that his team would have a “video game curfew.
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